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Le Café

Le Café : Established in 1970, Le Café was the base of operations for the emerging gay community in southern Nevada.



Metropolitan Community Church

Metropolitan Community Church: An article from March 1974 in the Las Vegas Review-Journal notes that Rev. Clonnie Lambert is pastor of a Las Vegas chapter of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC).


ACLU-Las Vegas

ACLU-Las Vegas: In 1975, The American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] opened an office in Las Vegas with a $5,000 grant from the national office. ACLU involvement in Las Vegas eventually led to the gay community's first newspaper.



Reno Gay Rodeo (RGR)

Reno Gay Rodeo (RGR): This rodeo, which officially began in 1977, raised the profile of the state’s gay people and went far toward establishing community and national recognition.


Boylesque

Boylesque: Female impersonation in Las Vegas, with a focus on Boylesque, which began its long run in 1977.


Nevadans for Human Rights

Nevadans for Human Rights: Founded in 1978, Nevadans for Human Rights was the first gay rights organization in Las Vegas.


Gay Academic Union

Gay Academic Union: Closely associated with Las Vegas' first Gay Pride Celebration, UNLV's Gay Academic Union held its first meeting in 1982.


Las Vegas' first Gay Pride Celebration

Las Vegas' first Gay Pride Celebration: Las Vegas held its first Gay Pride Celebration in 1983.



AIDS in Southern Nevada

AIDS in Southern Nevada: In 1983<, A 32-year-old man, resident in Las Vegas for just six months, was Southern Nevada's first AIDS death.


Stonewall Park

Stonewall Park: In 1984, Reno gay activist Fred Schoonmaker and his husband, Alfred Parkinson, initiated a series of efforts to establish a gay town in Nevada known as Stonewall Park.



Women United of Nevada

Women United of Nevada: Founded in 1987, Women United of Nevada [WUN], was the first separately founded, lesbian-identified organization in Las Vegas.


Bright Pink Literature (Get Booked)

Bright Pink Literature (Get Booked): Bright Pink Literature (later becoming Get Booked), opened in 1987. While more famous bookstores across the country, such as A Different Light and the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, have closed as LGBT literature has gone “mainstream,” Bright Pink Literature (Get Booked) has survived for more than 20 years.


Community Counseling Center

Community Counseling Center: In 1990 the Community Counseling Center opened at 1006-1008 East Sahara Avenue. Within a short time Community Counseling becomes one of the gay community's greatest resources.


Senate Bill 466

Senate Bill 466: Until the 1993 passage of Senate Bill 466, the history of Gay people in Nevada was largely one of criminal prosecution.


Center Stage, Inc.

Center Stage, Inc.: Nevada’s first queer theatre troupe was Center Stage, Inc., founded in 1999.


Question 2

Question 2: The fight for equal rights suffered a severe blow with the 2002 amendment to the Nevada constitution that denied same-sex partners the right to marry.


Las Vegas Transgender

Las Vegas Transgender: Transgender people have long been part of Las Vegas history, even though they have usually been left out of the social and political development of the gay community, and have been far slower in establishing a community of their own. But by 2009, Las Vegas held its first annual Transgender Health Fair and participated in the National Transgender Day of Remembrance.


SB 283

Despite a veto by Governor Jim Gibbons, SB 283, Nevada's Domestic Partnership Act, was passed in 2009.